18/04/2024
Our friends Black Beacon Sound are releasing some excellent music for a good cause, go and have a listen
Releasing left-field music on cassette tape in Sheffield
Our friends Black Beacon Sound are releasing some excellent music for a good cause, go and have a listen
UT017: Live by Provincial Towns of America is out now, grab some slabs of pummeling industrial metal (and some nice bits) from our Bandcamp
2 track album
The new Utility Tapes release is the debut live EP by Provincial Towns of America, formed at the request of the excellent Lo Egin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wATB5rcba8
Pre-order the cassette here
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut017-live
Utility Tapes presents this live recording of "I Came Here So My Mind Could Rest/The Orchestrator" by Provincial Towns of America taken from the upcoming liv...
Utility Tapes alumni has a new tape coming out on Icecapades from Manchester. Check out the incrredible video for "The Pyre" below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIQCMifTug4
and pre-order from https://iiicecapades.bandcamp.com/album/rekall
1 track album
UT015: Voodoo by Mati Piraztuk is out now - https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut015-voodoo
Have a listen and order a cassette here or stream on all streaming services
5 track album
Our Aidan Baker show at Bishops House is tonight! Stage times below:
7pm Doors
7:30 Heavy Lifting
8:15 Bleaklow
9:00 Aidan Baker
10:00 Bands finish
It will start and end on time due to a curfew so make sure you get there for doors. It's BYOB (or soft drinks) and in a beautiful and historic venue so please be respectful and take your empties/rubbish with you.
2 tickets have become available today so go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aidan-baker-bleaklow-heavy-lifting-tickets-609829094237 and grab one (or two)
Utility Tapes presents a rare opportunity to hear internationally recognised drone and ambient artists in the intimate 16th C Bishops' House
It's Bandcamp Friday and we're back with a brand new release - our first in months.
"Voodoo" by Argentine-Polish artist Mati Pirsztuk yoyos between crisp instrumental new wave and dense deconstructed shoegaze. Mati's creative guitar playing and lush tones provide the consistent backdrop that ties these two sounds together.
5 track album
There are very few tickets left for this excellent gig next month feat. Aidan Baker Bleaklow ( Gizeh Records ) and Heavy Lifting at Bishops House. If you're planning on coming then buy a ticket otherwise you might miss out.
I'm lining up a bunch of exciting releases for from September onwards, more news on that later. In the meantime, grab a ticket to our show in September with Aidan Baker, Bleaklow (Gizeh Records) and Heavy Lifting. It'll be a great time in the 16th century Bishops House
Utility Tapes presents a rare opportunity to hear internationally recognised drone and ambient artists in the intimate 16th C Bishops' House
Aidan will be doing this kind of thing at 1/20th speed on September 14th at Bishop's House in Sheffield
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aidan-baker-bleaklow-heavy-lifting-tickets-609829094237?aff=ebdshpsearchautocomplete
There are lots of exciting UT-adjacent records coming out today, enjoy!
naisian
https://doitthissenrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dit-048-scalar-waves
Lo Egin
https://deadmusicclub.bandcamp.com/album/volumancer
RM Tactical
https://rmtactical.bandcamp.com/album/big-natural
4 track album
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aidan-baker-bleaklow-heavy-lifting-tickets-609829094237
Very excited for the next show we're putting on featuring Aidan Baker Gizeh Records and Heavy Lifting at Bishops House. If you want to come then please buy a ticket in advance or you may miss out, it's very limited capacity.
Thanks to everyone who came to Bishops House last night for the gig with Adam Zejma, The Silver Reserve and Johnny F K. It was a big success.
Despite promising never to book a show again, there is something in the works for later in the year that promises to be pretty special.
We're putting on a show this Saturday at the lovely Bishops House with Johnny F K The Silver Reserve and Adam Zejma. It'll be a nice night of weird music and I'll have some one off cassettes only for sale on the night
Utility Tapes presents the album launch for Adam Zejma’s album Rusher Cutting, For Keiji.
Reverbs have shared UT014. You can grab it off our Bandcamp now or add it to your list for the next Bandcamp Friday. Only 3 or 4 copies left.
share Image credit: Adam Zejma The third, and most extensive, solo release from musician and recording/mastering engineer Adam Zejma sees him further blur the lines between experimentation, found sound and traditional alternative/indie songwriting. This time drafting in Zebedee Budworth (Night Flowe...
Stream the new Adam Zejma album in full from Veil of Sound and pre-order through from Bandcamp.
A few months ago, we were taken by surprise by a little, mostly overlooked release by a small Northern England-based label called Utility Tapes. The record was Salt Pig’s The Chalk Circle and of course we couldn’t say “No”, when the label asked us if we wanted to do a premiere for their next...
New Utility Tape out January 13th - Rusher Cutting, for Keiji by Adam Zejma on limited edition cassette, digital download and streaming
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut014-rusher-cutting-for-keiji
Please share with anyone who you think might be interested
Lovely review of The Chalk Circle by Salt Pig which is out now on Bandcamp and Spotify/similar. Links below:
https://open.spotify.com/album/7D6fLWF2QNwMuwI2LJ8bq1?si=9bfm3wm_TdqLeYSNhqlhug
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut013-the-chalk-circle
Over the last few years, I was surprised at many people not seeing the importance of Tortoise for the development of post-rock. The candor and plain openness towards vast influences from Jazz, to Fusion, from Prog-Rock and Blues. John McEntire and his fellows opened many doors, with many bands follo...
Over the last few years, I was surprised at many people not seeing the importance of Tortoise for the development of post-rock. The candor and plain openness towards vast influences from Jazz, to Fusion, from Prog-Rock and Blues. John McEntire and his fellows opened many doors, with many bands follo...
Another new track from The Chalk Circle by Salt Pig is up now. 11 minutes of weird jazz post-rock improvisation
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut013-the-chalk-circle
4 track album
NEW UTILITY TAPE
We're back with an excellent 35 minutes of weird improvised atmospheric jazz, drone, post rock stuff by Salt Pig featuring members of Acid Mass Night Flowers naisian and Unholy Shrines
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut013-the-chalk-circle
4 track album
Utility adjacent band The Limp have released their first EP today
https://thelimp.bandcamp.com/album/extended-play-1
2 track album
Utility Tapes alumni P Foundation are releasing an album on the brilliant Hard Return label. You can listen to a track and pre-order here: https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/young-cloud
5 track album
A new digital only Utility Tapes release by Adam Zejma and Robbie McKinney. Tarantella del Gargano is a "neo-Baroque" cover of the Italian baroque song.
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut012-zejma-kinney-tarantella-del-gargano
1 track album
Discovered this guy today, Kirill Shirokov. Very nice things:
https://kirillshirokov.bandcamp.com/
track by Kirill Shirokov
UT011: Mati Pirsztuk - Lucid Sunset Dream is now available on Spotify and similar, go stream it for free
https://open.spotify.com/album/0wWdJXKk668nLWngnrSz8X?si=AG2FrKbkRl6JtEtiEADU9Q&dl_branch=1
Mati Pirsztuk · Single · 2021 · 6 songs.
Hey 👋 we're back
More new later
UT009: MISSINGNO. by the elusive P Foundation is out now
Synthesises diverse influences and approaches to create harsh and alienating noise ruminations on the majesty, integrity and redolence of the late Pablo
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut009-missingno
5 track album
UT009 is the debut release from the enigmatic "P Foundation". MISSINGNO. sees P Foundation from the murky world of noise live streams to embark on their mission to immortalise the works and life of Pablo (2000-2019).
Absurd and aggressive noise rock from Lucy Cheesman (Heavy Lifting, TYPE) and Adam Zejma (Utility Tapes, naisian). MISSINGNO. will be released on limited edition cassette on September 30th.
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut009-missingno
5 track album
UT005: Soundtrack to Expedition by Teevee. is now sold out. Stock of other tapes is running very low too so act fast if you want any.
https://utilitytapes.bandcamp.com/album/ut005-soundtrack-to-expedition
6 track album
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